You should experience no trouble in freeing yourself from him altogether.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
Her tale was listened to with unbroken attention, and when it was ended Miss Peters exclaimed— "Now then, I forgive you, Agnes, and only now, for not returning the love of that very pleasant person Frederick Stephenson; ... for I do believe it is nearly impossible for a young lady to be in love with two gentlemen at once, and I now perceive beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the superb colonel turned your head from the very first moment that you looked ... not up on, but up to him.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope
But truly I think He’ve called ’e. Now ’t is for you to answer.”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
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